ECSSV Book Club

Upcoming Books

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter

4/22/2018

Candidates for the future

Every month we discuss the top book from the list above in the ‘Upcoming Books’ list, and choose another new book to add (for 3 months time). To help choose, books that have been suggested are listed below. (Email us with your suggestions to add to this list)

Title

Author

Subject(s)

War is a force that gives us meaning

Chris Hedges

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

Daniel Klein

On kindness

Adam Phillips; Barbara Taylor

Ending extreme inequality

Scott J Myers-Lipton

In praise of idleness

Bertrand Russell

The light of conscience

William H Shore

Prisons we choose to live inside

Doris Lessing

Why I Am Not a Christian

Bertrand Russell

How We Die

Sherwin Nuland

The Evil We Do

Carl Goldberg

The presentation of self in everyday life

Erving Goffman

Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour

Helmut Schoeck

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth

Facing Unpleasant Facts

George Orwell

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?

Michael Sandel

Mortality

Christopher Hitchens

On Tyrrany

Timothy Snyder

Born on Third Base

Chuck Collins

The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

Peter Temin

The Death of Expertise

Tom Nichols

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

Thomas E Mann

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harai

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

Jacob Silverman

The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

Shawn Lawrence Otto

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

Anne Applebaum

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind

Scott Stossel

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Behind

Richard V. Reeves

The Evil We Do: The Psychoanalysis of Destructive People

Carl Goldberg

The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams

Alfred Lubrano

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

Jeff Hobbs

Past Books

Title

Author

Date

Subject(s)

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

5/28/17

Listen, liberal, or, What ever happened to the party of the people?

Thomas Frank

6/25/17

Politics - Democratic Party

Hillbilly elegy

J D Vance

7/23/17

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

8/27/17

Media, public discourse

Man's Search for Meaning

Victor Frankl

9/24/17

Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

Rob Reich, Lucy Bernholz and Chiara Cordelli

10/22/17

Philanthropy, democracy, inequality, political science

The righteous mind

Jonathan Haidt

11/26/17

Moral psychology, politics, religion

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century